September 2011

New on realeyz.tv: "Transmission"

Starting on September 1st Harun Farocki’s Single Channel Installation TRANSMISSION ("Übertragung", Germany 2007) is available on realeyz.tv. The video film subjects Zurich’s Calvinist / Zwinglian heritage, its fetishism of commodities and money and the various secular and historical disruptions it has had to content with to an international cultural comparison. The video work explores ritualized gestures, documenting the different types of behavior, with a particular emphasis on hand movements, that people employ when confronted with places of remembrance, memorials or even still images. All of these rituals, whether casual, part of everyday life, or of a sacred nature, are united by the fact that they seek to touch upon something untouchable, give the spiritual physical form and make the intangible tangible.